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  Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Del Martin (born May 5, 1921) and Phyllis Lyon (born 1924) are an American lesbian couple known as feminist and gay-rights activists.
Martin is the author of Battered Wives (1976) and the co-author of Lesbian/Woman with Lyon (1972).
On February 12, 2004, Martin and Lyon were granted a marriage license, the first in a series of marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples in the United States by various local governments in 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Del_Martin_and_Phyllis_Lyon   (352 words)

  
 Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
Del Martin (born 1921) and Phyllis Lyon (born 1925) have been leaders of the lesbian and feminist movements since the 1950s.
Martin and Lyon have been active in the National Organization for Women[?] (NOW) since the 1970s.
Martin is the author of Battered Wives (1976) and the co-author of Lesbian/Woman with Lyon (1972) and Every Eighteen Seconds: A Journey Through Domestic Violence with Nancy Kilgore (1994).
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/de/Del_Martin.html   (199 words)

  
 Martin
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 Golden Girls: Martin and Lyon saluted - Bay Windows - Local News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Martin and Lyon, founders of the first lesbian rights organization, Daughters of Bilitis (D.O.B.), have done and seen a lot in their lifetime pertaining to lesbian rights.
Lyon said that she never thought she would see such a case in her lifetime, and is hopeful for a positive outcome.
Lyon said that she and Martin both feel honored to have received the award and wish they could be in Boston for the ceremony.
www.baywindows.com /news/2003/09/18/LocalNews/Golden.Girls.Martin.And.Lyon.Saluted-469558.shtml   (1016 words)

  
 LGBTRAN - Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon - Pioneer Profile
Phyllis Lyon was born on November 10, 1924, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and raised primarily in northern California.
Lyon and Martin accepted McIlvenna's invitation to participate in an historic consultation between religious leaders and gay and lesbian activists in the early summer of 1964.
Del was a leader in the campaign that resulted in the 1973 decision of the American Psychiatric Association to declare that homosexuality was not a mental illness.
www.lgbtran.org /Profile.asp?A=L&ID=124   (901 words)

  
 glbtq >> social sciences >> Lyon, Phyllis, and Del Martin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Martin was born in San Francisco on May 5, 1921; Lyon in Tulsa, Oklahoma on November 10, 1924, but raised and educated in San Francisco.
When Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon met in Seattle in 1949, where they worked for a publishing company, Martin, who had been briefly married, was a 29 year old lesbian mother, and Lyon was 25 and straight.
Lyon and Martin, meanwhile, had become very active in San Francisco politics and in the Council on Religion and the Homosexual, which had been formed in the mid-1960s to help end police harassment of gay bars.
www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/lyon_p.html   (719 words)

  
 Phyllis Lyon
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon are among the most beloved figures in the lesbian community.
Lyon went on to share the wonderful lesbian history that she and her partner helped create while living their lives as a loving political couple.
Lyon stated that the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) served as a coming out place for women and that it never was a ladies' auxiliary to the Mattachine society or One Incorporated, two gay male organizations...
www.queertheory.com /histories/l/lyon_phyllis.htm   (773 words)

  
 Lyon & Martin Appear at No Secret Anymore
Lyon said during those frightening times, cops would arrive unannounced and “scoop everybody up into paddy wagons,” and they would have to go to court and plead guilty of being homosexual, with the incident recorded in the newspapers.
Lyon said she and Martin were a little wary of having their home address printed in a publication, “The Velvet Touch,” about various outlets regarding alternative sexuality available to the interested public.
Lyon spoke of the very early years and how she eventually got up the nerve to move in with Martin, convincing her to leave Seattle and rent a Castro apartment with her for $65 a month.
www.castroonline.org /spectrum/0104/lyon_martin.htm   (806 words)

  
 the homosexual agenda :: Del Martin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Del Martin, born in San Francisco, California, in 1921, was briefly married to James Martin.
Del Martin has been active in many women's organizations, gay and lesbian activist organizations, and such other organizations as the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and the Hemlock Society.
Del Martin began her career as a reporter in San Francisco in 1948 with Pacific Builder and Daily Construction Reports.
www.thehomosexualagenda.org /delmartin.htm   (230 words)

  
 People
Phyllis, as editor, assumed an alias for the first three issues before coming out in print with her real name.
Today, Martin and Lyon are involved in issues such as social security, Medicare and social justice for older Americans.
Martin and Lyon authored the classic "Lesbian/Woman," the first book of its kind to explore the everyday lives of lesbians.
netscape.planetout.com /pno/specials/pride/features/lyonmartin.html   (310 words)

  
 Tolerance.org: WOMEN WHO INSPIRE JUSTICE: Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin
Part V focuses on Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, pioneers and tireless advocates in the lesbian community and the first same-sex couple to marry with any sort of government-sanctioned license in the nation.
Lyon paused, then added with a laugh of what sounded like equal parts joy and relief: "But it was a couple of unbelievable minutes.
Lyon and Martin were the first same-sex couple in the nation to be issued a government-sanctioned marriage license — though the legitimacy of that license likely will be questioned as this civil rights battle continues.
www.tolerance.org /news/article_tol.jsp?id=968   (869 words)

  
 Story on Marriage Dr. Mary E. Hunt
Del Martin, 82, and Phyllis Lyon, 79, married in San Francisco's City Hall on February 12, 2004.
It is hard to imagine, given all of the progress on same-sex issues, what life was like for Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon and their friends fifty years ago.
Del and Phyllis were a family before anyone imagined what is now quite commonplace even if still debated.
www.clgs.org /marriage/story_hunt.html   (1672 words)

  
 glbtq >> social sciences >> Lyon, Phyllis, and Del Martin
In 1972, Lyon and Martin published their most significant book, Lesbian/Woman, which remains a crucial account of American lesbian life in the twentieth century, ranging in its concerns from questions of sexuality to questions of psychological health.
Lyon, who in 1976 earned a doctorate in education, with a specialty in human sexuality, at the University of California, Berkeley, became director of the National Sex Forum and a nationally known expert on sexuality.
Martin and Lyon occupy a particularly important position as founding mothers of the modern glbtq movement, having participated in the movement's evolution from the timid first steps of the homophile organizations to the heady days of the gay and lesbian liberation to the achievement of more mainstream political clout.
www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/lyon_p,2.html   (666 words)

  
 Del Martin y Phyllis Lyon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Del Martin (como llevado de mayo el 5 de 1921) y Phyllis Lyon (llevada 1924) es un par lesbiano americano conocido feminista y los activistas de los alegre-derechos.
Martin y Lyon han sido líderes los movimientos la lesbiana y del feministas desde los años 50.
Martin de senador Dianne Feinstein y Lyon de Congreswoman Nancy Pelosi.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/de/Del%20Martin%20y%20Phyllis%20Lyon.htm   (387 words)

  
 [Videonews] No Secret Anymore "Highly Recommended"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She does this by skillfully interweaving interviews of Phyllis and Del (as well as fellow activists, friends and family, and political and religious leaders) with a variety of personal and public images.
Phyllis and Del began their fight against the forces of isolation by founding a "secret social club" called the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955.
Del asserts, "We are not 'single issue people'." Indeed, JEB presents a mosaic of social concerns that the women have worked on over the years: domestic abuse, sex education, fl civil rights, anti-war, and family issues, to name a few.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /pipermail/videonews/2004-July/000608.html   (639 words)

  
 Woman Vision - No Secret Anymore
With Del elected president and Phyllis as secretary, DOB went on to define its purpose as bringing lesbians into the public discourse through education, encouraging responsible research studies, and advocating for changes in the penal code.
Del was a key member of a campaign that resulted in the historic 1973 decision of the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its manual of mental disorders.
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon embody a steady and enduring devotion to one's ideals and family that anyone would be proud to take as a model.
www.womanvision.org /nosecret   (954 words)

  
 OutSmartMagazine.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, the pioneering lesbian activists, were the first couple married in San Francisco a year ago this month.
One of us, either me or Pat, asked, "Del, how come you know so much about that?" And she said, "Because I am one." I was really excited; that was the most interesting thing I had learned in a century.
So I was a femme, and Del was a butch, except that things that you think about that presumably butches would do, I do and she doesn't.
www.outsmartmagazine.com /cms-this_issue/200502--Our+Heroes.html   (2278 words)

  
 Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon : Legendary Women
Two of the eight women who founded the historic group were a couple by the names of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon.
Del was a lesbian and Phyllis her "straight friend".
Del and Phyllis did not stop their push for equality and recognition with the founding of D.O.B..
www.geocities.com /mycauses/legend.html   (392 words)

  
 Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon: Partners in Love and Activism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon may be just as captivated as the rest of the audience on Feb. 13.
A month before its debut, the film was still being completed, so Lyon and Martin weren't sure whether they'd see it before the public screening and celebration this month.
Much has changed over the years, and Lyon and Martin were driving forces behind many of the hard-fought battles for LGBT rights, which, at the time they began their activism, were simply called gay rights.
www.noevalleyvoice.com /2003/February/Lyon.html   (693 words)

  
 Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin Make History Again   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pioneering lesbian rights activists and NOW members Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon made history Feb. 12 in San Francisco when they became the first same-sex couple in the United States to have their marriage recognized by a government entity.
Leaders of NOW, along with feminist activists everywhere, were thrilled to hear the news that the San Francisco city government had sanctioned marriage for lesbians and gays, and that Martin, 83, and Lyon, 79, were the first to marry in an impromptu ceremony.
After forming the first national lesbian rights organization, Daughters of Bilitis, in 1955 and joining NOW in the 1960s as one of the few sources of community, Martin and Lyon left the organization over concerns about homophobia in 1979, but rejoined in 1988 and participated in that year's NOW Lesbian Rights Conference.
www.now.org /issues/lgbi/021304lyon-martin.html   (502 words)

  
 GayNZ.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, a lesbian couple in their eighties, have been doing just that for the last fifty years in America.
Radical and revolutionary in their thinking rather than their actions, Martin and Lyon have continued to fight the good fight even when they weren’t wanted.
An attempt to join forces on gay rights back in the 60s with the gay Mattachine Society foundered when it became apparent that gay men back then had no interest in lesbian issues although, it is noted, lesbians were not similarly dismissive of the effect of AIDS on gay men in the 80s.
www.gaynz.com /aarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=258&print=yes   (367 words)

  
 Couple at Vanguard of Lesbian Rights / Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon to be honored as grand marshals at Gay Pride parade
On Sunday -- when San Francisco holds its 30th Gay Pride parade -- Martin and Lyon, who have been a couple for 47 years, will be honored, along with gay Supervisor Tom Ammiano, as community grand marshals, for their decades of service to the community.
Lyon was appointed to city commissions in the administrations of both mayors George Moscone and Dianne Feinstein.
Lyon cites as recent examples of progress: the 1998 election of U.S Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, the only openly gay woman in Congress; the fact that Vice President Al Gore has embraced gays in his presidential campaign; and smaller victories such as gays and lesbians being elected to school boards and city councils.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/23/MN4706.DTL   (990 words)

  
 Del Martin
Battered Wives includes excellent critical summaries of the legal and political status of battered wives and the extent to which their immediate predicament must be understood in broad political terms.
Del Martin argues that the basis of the problem is not in husband/wife interaction or immediate triggering events, but in the institution of marriage, historical attitudes toward women, the economy, and inadequacies in legal and social service systems.
She proposes specific legislation prohibiting wife abuse and suggest that judges protect the wife by closing the door to probation and de-emphasizing reconciliation.
www.queertheory.com /histories/m/martin_del.htm   (701 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Gay activists blaze trail for half century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lyon remembers feeling "as curious as heck" about Martin, although at the time she did not think of herself as lesbian.
Lyon moved back to San Francisco where her family lived, and Martin, also from San Francisco, soon followed.
Martin and Lyon steered the group in a more serious direction and began hosting meetings on topics such as legal and social rights for homosexuals.
www.usatoday.com /life/2004-03-03-gay-trailblazers-usat_x.htm   (1338 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Gay activists blaze trail for half century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Feb. 12, 2004: Lyon and Martin are married in San Francisco.
At one point early on, Martin and Lyon considered moving to New York to keep Lyon's parents from discovering the nature of their relationship.
Lyon and Martin have an "inner peace" that has allowed them to "not be intimidated by other people's judgments," Biren says.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-03-03-gay-trailblazers-usat_x.htm   (1378 words)

  
 One Wedding and a Revolution Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She called upon two of the most valiant pioneers of the LGBT movement--Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon--to be the first to marry.
Phyllis answered the phone, and I said, 'I hate, to yet again, ask you to do one more thing for the movement.
The mayor is marrying Del and Phyllis in an hour,'" Chasnoff said, recalling the frenzy of activity the morning of February 12.
www.womedia.org /press_owr_premiere.htm   (448 words)

  
 2003 Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Del and Phyllis are more than just an elderly lesbian couple still in love — these two remarkable women have been civil rights activists for most of their lives.
It is a testament to the considerable achievements of its subjects (who even today campaign for battered women, lesbian mothers, and other women’s rights and causes) that they did it together.
The impact of Martin and Lyon’s work is truly remarkable.
www.phillyfests.com /piglff/2003/templates/film_details.cfm?id=2113   (246 words)

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